Word: armor
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...Renaissance masters, details of flowers and fruits were like armor and rich fabrics-just opportunities to show off their technical virtuosity. Their great central passages focused on what they deemed to be nature's sublime creation: man. But through the centuries the viewpoint has changed. Today still life has become for many artists an intimate proving ground for their own vision and expression. The very fact that the inanimate objects grouped together are from everyday life provides the challenge to infuse them with what one of the greatest still-life painters, Paul Cézanne* called "an impulse that...
...pocket to acquire a second-hand mouse-trap," he takes over the decayed movie studios next to the dump. At this point the whimsicality that infects British writers when they deal with cockneys unfortunately takes over the novel. Old Cock arrays himself in a junkpile suit of armor and routs the rozzers, crying in his version of Shakespeare: "Here I come, you lousy whoresons...
...eastern Mediterranean. In Paris the Defense Ministry announced appointment of three-star General André Beaufre, an expert on airborne operations, to command a new "Mediterranean force." French newspapers, kicking up a new martial stir over the Suez, reported that air units were grouping at fields near Paris, armor and paratroop forces massing near Algerian ports...
...books about faithful dogs have one thing in common: almost complete immunity from literary criticism. Who would be rash enough to examine the soft underbelly of Bob, Son of Battle or cock an ear to the corny notes in The Voice of Bugle Ann? The same armor of sentimentality will surely protect Old Yeller. Texas Author Fred Gipson, onetime newsman and veteran of the pulps, has written double insurance into his third novel. Not only is Old Yeller a mongrel of rare courage and devotion; his 14-year-old master, Travis, totes about as much man on his boyish frame...
...prophet's hold upon a primitive, God-haunted people The story of the conflict between king and kingmaker, man and God, has been dimmed by divergent accounts in the Old Testament. In Shirley Watkins' novel the struggle rings out as clearly as the clash of ax on armor...